Counseling & Therapy
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This category is the Bay Area's most in depth directory of licensed mental health professionals, referral agencies, and counseling hotlines. Also see the Hypnotherapy, Personal Growth, Sexuality, Singles, Women's Issues, and Weight Issues categories for related therapies and group instruction.

FLUID WISDOM
Christine Marie Waddell

Are you suffering needlessly? Caught in repeating patterns imprinted long ago?
Discover the heart and wisdom to make good, clear choices where it counts most. Reconnect with your emotional honesty, internal freedom, self-sourcing and empowerment. Learn to move...  Click for Details

DOORWAYS TO SOULWORK
Anna Billings, LMFT   Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist   510-524-0833
The need for soulwork---therapy that addresses the unique unfoldment of each individual---often accompanies relationship conflicts, separations, loss, job changes, trauma, relocation, mid-life and other life transitions....  Click for Details

ARE YOU AN ACMI?
Eva Brown, LCSW    Oakland    (510) 635-5063

"Adult Children of the Mentally Ill" often have patterns of behavior (distrust of emotion; inordinate need for control, structure and security; playing caretaker in relationships) which result from the painful experience of growing up with an emotionally disturbed parent...  Click for Details

REICHIAN THERAPY
Michele T. Newmark, MS, DD, ACS    
Come alive to your sexuality & joy of life...
Reichian therapy is a non-verbal "breathing" therapy. Whereas "talk" is a great way to avoid what you're feeling, there is no way to avoid your feelings while lying there breathing in a Reichian session. Over time, chronically stiff and hard muscles that are blocking sensation and energy flow will soften...
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DEPTH PSYCHOTHERAPY: INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES & GROUPS
Joan A. Monheit, LCSW        (510) 845-1557
Whether you are considering therapy for a current life crisis or for a long-standing concern, depth psychotherapy can help you understand and change old patterns and beliefs that get in your way of living fully. Because our wounds, our vulnerabilities, are shaped by early relationships...  Click for Details

INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES, FAMILIES
Deborah L. Blackburn, MA, MFT     (510) 482-8300

Tired of relationships that don't work out? Like to change those self-defeating behaviors that keep you stuck? Need to reduce stress in your life?
We all have times in our lives when we need help resolving difficult problems....  Click for Details

BODY / MIND TRANSFORMATION
Surja Jessup, MS, CHT     510-848-7519

Hypnotherapy, Counseling and Acupressure are combined in this empowering journey. Hypnotherapy changes limiting beliefs, habits and past trauma into empowered thought and action in alignment with personal goals. Acupressure clears blockages and pain, and deepens...  Click for Details

FEEL STUCK?  RELATIONSHIPS & CO-DEPENDENCE ISSUES
CULTURAL & RACIAL SENSITIVITY/EXPERIENCE • NURTURING YOUR REAL SELF
TREATING ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER
Sue Roberts, MSW, LCSW   (510) 524-2540   SF & Berkeley Offices

Feel stuck? I can offer you professional assistance during difficult times. I'm a good listener. I really care. I've been a therapist 30 years in Berkeley and San Francisco....  Click for Details

TRANSFORMATIONAL HEALING
Haruko Emoto, PhD, CCHT (510) 841-5639  Berkeley

Your healing journey can be a transformational, joyful, and magical process. In a safe and confidential space, Haruko facilitates: • Spiritual growth unfolding • Finding solutions when nothing seems to be working • Trauma release/Inner child work • Dream work - Hypnotherapy...  Click for Details

VISIONARY RE- MOTHERING: AMAE THERAPY FOR UNDERMOTHERED WOMEN
Soonja Kim, LCSW, Licensed Psychotherapist #10157   (510) 558-0410
What is it like to have a loving mothering figure on your side? My re-mothering therapy helps you to connect with both the outer and inner resources of mothering energy, that of unconditional love, personalized for you. You don't have to feel alone in your growth journey....  Click for Details

GROWING FLOWERS NOT WEEDS
Bonnie Waters   Holistic Counseling   510-865-4888
Taking Positive Action matters! My holistic center has classes, counseling, hynotherapy, brain balance, clearing negative beliefs, the law of attraction, soul patterns, family patterns,light therapy for positive change. Call today and make change happen....   Click for Details

SPIRITUAL COUNSEL. "GOING BEYOND THE SPIRITUAL STATUS QUO"
Timothy Hilton   707-433-9021
When you are in training for some type of athletic endeavor, having a motivated workout partner can help you achieve your fitness goals in a shorter period of time. The same goes for our Spiritual endeavors. The Spiritual path is full of dead ends and cul-de-sacs which can sap our time and energy...   Click for Details

TRANSFORMATIONAL TOUCH HYPNOTHERAPY & HYPNOMASSAGE
Cathy Dana, MS, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (510) 523-7853

Tired of wracking your brain on nagging problems that you just can't resolve? What if you could relax and let the unconscious mind find solutions for you? If that sounds too easy, you may be in for a nice surprise....  Click for Details

SPIRITUALITY-BASED APPROACH TO RELATIONSHIPS & GROWTH
John Amodeo, PhD, MFT (#MFC14453)
Individuals/Couples - San Francisco, San Rafael, Sebastopol   (707) 829-8948

Using a warm, engaging style, we'll address relationship concerns/life issues wanting resolution or clarity, including repairing broken trust, healing from loss/betrayal, communicating skillfully...  Click for Details

PSYCHOTHERAPY & THE WORK OF BYRON KATIE
Zoé Newman, MFT   (510) 527-9061

I offer a compassionate, safe space in which you can explore difficult issues, connect with inner resources, learn to support yourself with self-acceptance, and move forward in your life.
I draw on twenty years experience and a broad background including EMDR...  Click for Details

ARE YOU STUCK?
BREAKTHROUGH HYPNOTHERAPY & DREAMWORK
Maryanna Blair    Call 415-455-0991    Free Half Hour Consultation
Feeling really stuck? There's a reason! Your subconscious isn't allowing your forward movement!
It's time to skillfully communicate with your subconscious mind and allow the "stuckness" to tell us what it's all about! If you want a jump start for change, using the laws of physics...  Click for Details

FEDERICO GARCIA,
SEP CQI
I use the principles and methods of Classical Chinese medicine with established scientific theory to help you recover swiftly from accidents, injury and traumatic stress. You will also be able to release the feeling of "drag and resistance" to life caused by chronic stress and anxiety....   Click for Details

LIFEMATREX
Women's Transformation Process Groups • Wednesday Evenings in San Francisco
Tuesday Evenings in Mill Valley • Personal Development Counseling
With Ruth Boerger   415-752-7251
Join a small group of compassionate, engaged, and vibrant women and process life issues in a safe and creative environment: • Discover and work on what's really important to you...  Click for Details

EARTH CIRCLES COUNSELING CENTER
510-601-1929
We offer high quality, compassionate psychotherapy for individuals, couples, families, and groups. Compassionate healing therapy empowers you to create the life of your dreams and aspirations...
We can help you work through a variety of life issues such as:
 • Self-esteem  • Depression, isolation, and grief  • Relationship conflicts...   Click for Details

LOSE YOUR EXCESS WEIGHT NOW
RAPIDLY & SAFELY WITH ADVANCED HYPNOTHERAPHY
Barbara Lynn Allen, MS, CCHT, DCEP - Berkeley    510-528-4976

Are you ready to break the cycle of compulsive and addictive eating? Have you lost weight in the past, only to put it all back on and more? Now with the magic of hypnotherapy and the power of your own subconscious mind, develop the healthy eating habits that will allow you to...  Click for Details

MINDFULL SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY & HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK™
The approach is body centered. It is from our bodies (our home) that we can access our great wisdom, heal past wounds, traumas and remember how to be more present, alive and connected with our true essence. Experience and various trainings keep supporting the importance of breath, grounded presence and mindfulness in any therapeutic setting and healing/transformation process....  Click for Details

HEAL YOUR SPIRIT, CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Kathleen Downey   415.536.9403
Kathleen Downey, Shamanic Counselor/Past-Life Therapist, has seventeen years of experience and is well known and respected nationally and internationally for her profound life changing therapy developed after seven years of training and healing herself of cancer, Lyme disease and...   Click for Details

ACTUALIZING HYPNOTHERAPY
"Assisting You to Re-Create Your Life" - Current & Past Life Regression Therapy
Michael C. Pollack, PhD, CCHT   (415) 566-1531    San Francisco
ALLOW Your Dreams to Become Your REALITY!

Break the chains that hold you back! Accelerate your GROWTH and replace your old, negative emotional patterns or "tapes" with new, positive ones....  Click for Details

INFERTILITY PSYCHOTHERAPY
Alina Steinberg Baugh, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist   650-539-9662

Psychotherapy for women and couples with focus on infertility. Services offered include individual work, couples counseling, and support groups. I will work towards developing a relationship with you where you can feel safe to express your thoughts and feelings and what is holding you back...   Click for Details

PREMSIRI LEWIN, MFT, SEP
Individuals, Couples & Groups   Offices in San Rafael & Berkeley   415-258-9066

ARE YOU LONGING FOR A DOORWAY TO FREEDOM from eating emotionally, eating disorders, compulsive eating and patterns of thinking and relationship that don't serve your life? I work closely with you to restore your trust in yourself. Feeling unbearably alone with painful emotions...   Click for Details

TRANSFORM YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
Bonnie Waters - Holistic Counseling   510-865-4888
Relationship Coaching allows you to uncover the Root Patterns in your relationship dynamics. My work with you maps patterns of harmony and disharmony so you can see the patterns and make the changes in your relationship dynamics. Relationship fitness and Self knowledge are...   Click for Details

FREE THE LIGHT WITHIN
Ana Maria Sanchez, MS   Licensed Heal Your Life Teacher & Workshop Facilitator  (650) 804-9816
As a Spiritual Guidance Counselor and Reiki Master, it is my desire and commitment to help others release the energy blockages within their psychological, physical and spiritual being. I use a heart-centered approach to assist individuals to awaken to their highest potential...  Click for Details